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$3.5 Million Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Blood Clot

January 15, 2023

$3.5 Million For Misdiagnosis Of Blood Clot: On September 28, 2022, a Texas medical malpractice jury in Houston returned its verdict in the amount of $3.5 million in favor of the plaintiff who alleged that the defendant failed to properly diagnose a large blood clot in his leg that left him with a s[...]

3M Beats 3M Bair Hugger Warming System Lawsuit

January 12, 2023

3M Beats 3M Bair Hugger Warming System Lawsuit: 3M states on one of its websites: “The Bair Hugger patient warming system is an effective way to control a patient’s body temperature during surgery. Keeping people warm reduces the risk of infections, surgical bleeding, heart attack following [...]

$15,500 Washington Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Remove Ovary

January 11, 2023

$15,500 Verdict For Failure To Remove Ovary: In September 2022, a 12-person Washington medical malpractice jury sitting in Asotin County Superior Court deliberated for six hours before returning its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for noneconomic damages in the amount of $15,500 for the alleged m[...]

$1.3 Million Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Carotid Artery Dissection

January 7, 2023

$1.3 Million Verdict For Undiagnosed Carotid Artery Dissection: On October 7, 2022, a Berks County Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury found that Reading Hospital was medically negligent in treating the plaintiff, Kathryn Dailey, when she arrived at the hospital in October 2016, complaining of sym[...]

$902,000 Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Screw Left In Spine Following Surgery

December 23, 2022

$902,000 For Screw Left In Spine: In August 2022, a Miami medical malpractice jury awarded a woman and her husband a combined $902,000 for a screw left in the woman’s spine following two spinal surgeries performed in Fort Lauderdale in 2015. The Florida medical malpractice jury awarded plainti[...]

Two Minnesota Seven-Figure Verdicts Against Troubled Nursing Home

December 21, 2022

Seven-Figure Verdicts Against Nursing Home: For the second time in 2022, the Estates at St. Louis Park (“Estates”) nursing home in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which has a one star rating under the five-star rating system used by CMS, was held liable by a jury in excess of $1 million for failin[...]

$14.42 Million Verdict Against Health Net For Patient’s Opioid Addiction

December 17, 2022

$14.42 Million Verdict Against Health Net For Patient’s Opioid Addiction: On December 12, 2022, a California jury returned its verdict in favor of plaintiff Elaine Courtney in the amount of $14.42 million ($6.92 million in compensatory damages and an additional $7.5 million in punitive damages[...]

Trends In Breast Cancer Medical Malpractice Claims

December 4, 2022

Trends In Breast Cancer Medical Malpractice Claims: A recent study of factors contributing to medical malpractice claims related to breast cancer and the field of breast imaging involved a retrospective analysis of jury verdict and settlement reports in state and federal courts in the United State[...]

$15M Alabama Jury Verdict For Death of 8-Year-Old With Sickle Cell Disease In Foster Care

November 9, 2022

$15M Verdict For Death of 8-Year-Old In Foster Care: On August 5, 2022, an Alabama jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15 million against a social worker employed by the Alabama Department of Human Resources and a foster care provider for their alleged negligence in the death of an 8-year-ol[...]

$75 Million Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologist And ER Physician For Locked-In Syndrome

October 26, 2022

$75 Million Verdict For Locked-In Syndrome: Earlier this month, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a medical malpractice plaintiff who suffered locked-in syndrome due to the medical negligence of the ER physician and a radiologist who failed to timely diagnose his br[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Intervening And Superseding Causation In Affirming Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

October 14, 2022

Court Discusses Intervening And Superseding Causation: Intervening Cause Section 441 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts defines an intervening force as a force “which actively operates in producing harm to another after the actor’s negligent act or omission has been committed.” Importantly, [...]

Texas Supreme Court Reverses Suicide Medical Malpractice Award

October 9, 2022

Court Reverses Suicide Medical Malpractice Award: The Supreme Court of Texas stated in its opinion delivered on May 13, 2022: “In this health-care liability case, we must determine the appropriate causation standard to apply. The facts are tragic. A teen committed suicide after seeking treatme[...]

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